A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done at all.

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.

What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.